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    The main comment themes I found were:

    • Error messages: still a problem
    • Spec: promising, but how to adopt fully unclear
    • Docs: still bad, but getting a little better
    • Startup time: always been a problem, becoming more pressing with serverless computing
    • Marketing/adoption: Clojure still perceived as niche/unknown by non-technical folk
    • Language: some nice ideas for improvement
    • Language Development Process: not changing, still an issue
    • Community: mostly good, but elitist attitudes are a turnoff, and there is a growing perception CLJ is shrinking
    • Libraries: more guidance needed on how to put them together
    • Other targets: a little interest in targeting non JS/JVM targets
    • Typing: less than in previous years, perhaps people are finding spec meets their needs?
    • ClojureScript: improving fast, tooling still tricky, NPM integration still tricky
    • Tooling: still hard to put all the pieces together
    • Compliments: “Best. Language. Ever.”

    Lots of room for improvement here, but I still love working with Clojure and am thankful that I get to do so.